“My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.” PoliticalEconomicEmpowermentPrioritiesParticipationTop PrioritiesEconomic EmpowermentPolitical Participation Author:Michelle Bachelet
“The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.” HumansTwoFormLawPoliticalSidesLibertyRightsProgressViolenceEconomicProduceMaterialsConceptsFoundationPropertyInjusticeHuman RightsLiberalismGuaranteesStemMedalRule Of LawInseparableTwo SidesPrivate PropertyUnified Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
“If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.” IfsFeelsProblemPoliticalSpiritIndividualSocialWalksPathEconomicSacredConnectedness Author:Satish Kumar
“The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.” WayHumansLooksBookIdeasMatterPoliticalEconomicHuman NatureDirectCurrentsStatementsCollapseParallelsNever ChangeBack In TimeEconomic Collapse Author:James Vance
“What we are doing in this campaign [2016], it just blows my mind every day because I see it clearly, we're taking on not only Wall Street and economic establishment, we're taking on the political establishment.” MindPoliticalEconomicStreetsWallBlowCampaignsEstablishment Author:Bernie Sanders
“Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.” WorldNeedsDoeIdeasCountryProblemPoliticalTermRealizingEconomicConceptsChinaSolveOpeningIsolationConnectingOpening Up Author:Zhang Xin
“Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.” WellsPoliticalSocialIssuesGreaterEconomicComplexesGlobalizationClosenessEconomic Globalization Author:Amartya Sen
“We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.” WorldNeedsDifferentPoliticalSocialEconomicTypeInstitutionsRecognizing Author:Amartya Sen
“I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction of lives and hopes, the emotional trauma, and the economic, social, and political marginalization of the displaced, the human insecurity, with real and potentially devastating consequences over generations, in ever-widening arenas of conflict. We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.” HumansRealPoliticalSocialVoiceRightsGenerationsHeardEconomicEmotionalConflictConsequenceDestructionTragedyHuman RightsIraqTraumaHumanitarianPostsZoneInsecuritySyriaAnguishPakistanPalestineArenaMarginalizationEmotional Trauma Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.” WayNeedsKindCountryWholeFactsWould BePoliticalDealsEconomicNeededProgramAidsMedicalBest WayAll KindsOur CountryBurmaParts Of A Whole Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.” CountryGovernmentPoliticalForcePowerfulCompanyEconomicStreetsWallFinePaidBillionsMost PowerfulInvestorsFederal GovernmentSettlementGoldman Sachs Author:Bernie Sanders
“Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.” FactsPoliticalLeftShareAtheismEconomicKeysRelationCrisisBelieverAspirationAgendasLeftists Author:George Pattison
“One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.” PoliticalLostChurchPartyEconomicPeriodsMembersUnionsViolentSovietSoviet Union Author:George Pattison
“There is no difference in a country between military, economic, and political affairs. It's useful for Business Insider to divide things that way. That's useful for a college program. But a country is a country. How do you understand China's economy without China's army? If you take these all into account you're ready to explain a question like, "How come the US doesn't have a debt problem?"” IfsWayCountryProblemPoliticalDifferencesEconomyEconomicMilitaryCollegeReadyProgramAccountsArmyAffairChinaDebtDividesInsiders Author:George Friedman
“In the nearer term, the likeliest source of risk is a conflict between China and the U.S. These are now the two largest economies in the world, and the combination of their economic interdependence, the sharp differences in their political and economic values, and the growing divergence in their interests makes this relationship potentially dangerous for everyone who might be affected by it - which means pretty much everyone.” WorldMeanTwoMightPoliticalValuesTermInterestDifferencesEconomyGrowingRiskEconomicDangerousSourceConflictChinaCombinationAffectedInterdependenceDivergenceEconomic Value Author:Ian Bremmer
“I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.” PoliticalSocialFeminismEconomicDefinitionsDictionaryWomen EqualityEconomic Equality Author:Jessica Valenti
“A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.” YearsWarPoliticalPeacePresidentEconomicRaisesElectionPopularityTestedTacticsRatingDownturnElection YearsEconomic Downturn Author:Chaz Bufe
“I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.” IfsThinkingLooksWholeBigsPoliticalTermMistakeEconomicAwakeningMaking MistakesDynamicsBig Mistake Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.” PeopleTryingLittlesHardCareFacesPoliticalSocialCompanyEconomicHard WorkTheoryCapitalismCreditCriticalTake CareAwfulRejectsSincereAttackingWipeTherapistsPsychotherapyTrenchesInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Companies Author:James Hillman
“The problems in the world today are not political problems, they are not economic problems, and they are not military problems. The problems in the world today are spiritual problems. They have to do with what people believe. They have to do with our most fervently held thoughts and ideas about Life, about God, and most of all, about ourselves, and our very reason for living.” PeopleWorldBelieveIdeasReasonProblemTodaySpiritualPoliticalEconomicMilitaryWorld TodayEconomic ProblemsThoughts And Ideas Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening.” StatesProblemPoliticalSocialConsciousnessEconomicPlanetsGoes OnHappeningsEnvironmentalListsLeapTransitionEnteringStates Of ConsciousnessUpheavalMultiplying Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on race, on sex or any other personal characteristics.” LawPoliticalSexRaceEconomicCourtCharacteristicsDisputesPolitical PowerForums Author:Jon Kyl
“There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.” MadeLawPoliticalMotivationCompanyEconomicPoliticianOceanProfit Author:Paul Watson
“Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.” PeopleIfsWayWellsHas BeensSometimesPoliticalProcessDifficultDifferencesLossSimpleAnswersSuccessfulEconomicIraqTerrorismAfghanistanRegimesInterventionReconstructionRemovalKosovo Author:Tony Blair